This idea that every crisis feels like the end of the world until we forget it rings painfully true. The way you bring severity and memory into conversation makes it clear that panic isn’t just about the event, but about how short our timeline of perspective often is. It reminded me of standing too close to a painting so all you see is a dark smudge, and only when you step back do you realise it’s part of a much larger scene. Your words feel like that gentle hand on the shoulder telling us to take three steps back before deciding that everything is doomed.
Thank you so much for reading it I'm glad you liked it. I started writing about 7 months ago on substack but I'm just starting to promote my articles now.
I'm going to be releasing some of my top posts in days & months to come… redone and upgraded… if you want to get a sneak peek you can dig through the archive now and see a version that's a tad more crude but just as good
It's one of my favorite. I'm going to do an updated version so subscribers can get the bigger picture. The one problem was obviously that I did it in a random point of time. I'm trying now to work on a piece of compiles things that are less time sensitive to even paint a bigger picture.
I've tried to tell people that the kids winning 2028, the kids winning 2028, is using all of 2026, 2027 to discuss issues and hold both parties accountable because that's the only way you get a candidate that actually represents the people and make the parties fear but they need to be accountable. If whatever Donald Trump did to aggravate everyone that day isn't going to end up in a book about his presidency, then it's not worth talking about. We have enough of a problem with blowing major stories out of proportion, we certainly don't need to be making news out of things that otherwise would not be
Absolutely! Unfortunately the media is captured, so to reject it is our only choice. But that leaves us in the dark. Money corrupts, and even you tube, where o get my news, creates the same trap construct- get paid more if you enrage and incite. Give the news straight and the algorithm leaves you unseen and unheard. The very structure of this economy and now our society makes survival more important than decency truth or justice. This is how it always goes when the wealthy grow impossible to satisfy and drain the economy. People who have fallen to maslow's lower levels can't fight it but until there is nothing left to lose, the pitchforks aren't raised. I also have to say the trauma aspect of this news cycle, this speed of injury is real. At no point in my education did we ever read about what it was like to lose your democracy, what it feels like to be inside a system being brutally destroyed with pure contempt for all of us dependent upon it. I didn't know how paralyzing it is- grief and terror are powerful weapons.
This idea that every crisis feels like the end of the world until we forget it rings painfully true. The way you bring severity and memory into conversation makes it clear that panic isn’t just about the event, but about how short our timeline of perspective often is. It reminded me of standing too close to a painting so all you see is a dark smudge, and only when you step back do you realise it’s part of a much larger scene. Your words feel like that gentle hand on the shoulder telling us to take three steps back before deciding that everything is doomed.
I see you subscribed, and I thank you. I hope the yo is a good one...
Thank you so much for reading it I'm glad you liked it. I started writing about 7 months ago on substack but I'm just starting to promote my articles now.
I'm going to be releasing some of my top posts in days & months to come… redone and upgraded… if you want to get a sneak peek you can dig through the archive now and see a version that's a tad more crude but just as good
It's all so much bigger than "politics," but nobody wants to see it that way.
Good piece! Thank you!
It's one of my favorite. I'm going to do an updated version so subscribers can get the bigger picture. The one problem was obviously that I did it in a random point of time. I'm trying now to work on a piece of compiles things that are less time sensitive to even paint a bigger picture.
I've tried to tell people that the kids winning 2028, the kids winning 2028, is using all of 2026, 2027 to discuss issues and hold both parties accountable because that's the only way you get a candidate that actually represents the people and make the parties fear but they need to be accountable. If whatever Donald Trump did to aggravate everyone that day isn't going to end up in a book about his presidency, then it's not worth talking about. We have enough of a problem with blowing major stories out of proportion, we certainly don't need to be making news out of things that otherwise would not be
Absolutely! Unfortunately the media is captured, so to reject it is our only choice. But that leaves us in the dark. Money corrupts, and even you tube, where o get my news, creates the same trap construct- get paid more if you enrage and incite. Give the news straight and the algorithm leaves you unseen and unheard. The very structure of this economy and now our society makes survival more important than decency truth or justice. This is how it always goes when the wealthy grow impossible to satisfy and drain the economy. People who have fallen to maslow's lower levels can't fight it but until there is nothing left to lose, the pitchforks aren't raised. I also have to say the trauma aspect of this news cycle, this speed of injury is real. At no point in my education did we ever read about what it was like to lose your democracy, what it feels like to be inside a system being brutally destroyed with pure contempt for all of us dependent upon it. I didn't know how paralyzing it is- grief and terror are powerful weapons.
I may have been mistaken about you Rxan